Many of you may be asking why we're walking from Gloucester to London and why walk at all?! 

I was driving down to Devon in August with my wife Ann and had been wondering how I could repay all the great work the QE Hospital had done for me in turning around my situation. 

As you may or may not know, I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer on 1st February 2017, which is a shock that probably can never be described. So here I was, completely destroyed and speechless, having to tell my family and very close friends this information that I myself hadn’t really got my head around.  “Well what does that mean; how will this work; is it terminal?”. 

I started my appointments at the QE on 1st February and was quickly referred to Professor Maria De Santis who started me on the journey of scans, blood tests, biopsies etc until I started my 6 treatments of chemo every 3 weeks at the beginning of March. 

Needless to say, the chemo has hopefully done its best (or worst) and every day now I’m feeling stronger and more determined. 

So I have decided to follow in the footsteps (literally) of Dick Whittington and walk to London over 7 days and I'd like to invite you all to join me!

The goal is from 28th April through to 4th May 2018 we will walk from the Dick Whittington pub in the centre of Gloucester to the Mansion House in the City of London.  Around 110 miles through the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and onto the River Thames for the last leg.

With your help I’m hoping to raise for charity between £25,000-£50,000 if I can and the money raised will be split between Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity's prostate cancer research fund and Prostate Cancer UK.   

I’m hoping to raise this money because you, like me, want to help people get cured of cancer and for people to be aware that if it strikes they are not alone and help is available. 

Peter Bache